This is the first recipe we tried from Ching-He Huang’s new book Chinese Food Made Easy.
Apparently General Tso’s Chicken is a very popular dish in the USA, this is a fiery dish with deep flavours. I really enjoyed it and it was very quick to prepare and make. Proper fast food!
General Tso's Chicken
It has been quite some time since my last post here and in that time we’ve become parents once again. I’m now the proud mother of a 4 year old boy and a 6 month old girl and we couldn’t be happier.
I’m currently still off on maternity leave for another 4 weeks so I really will try and keep blogging as once I’m back at work time may be at a premium.
So, on to the food…
I ADORE Mexican food and am constantly searching for new recipes. This one was dreamt up this afternoon just basically based on my favorite flavors which I associate with Mexico. I used my slow cooker but it could be cooked just as easily on the stove-top.
Hope you like it.
Mexican Style Chicken with Coriander and Lime
It’s grill season and so it’s time for me to dust off my favourite summer cookbook – The Great Big Burger Book!
For anyone who loves BBQ’s this is an essential piece of kit.
This recipe is based upon one from the Great Big Burger Book but it’s not exactly the same so I give you my version:
Tex Mex Chedder Chicken Burgers with Caramelized Onions
We tried this recipe for the first time a few weeks ago, it was featured on Saturday Kitchen broadcast on BBC1. It takes a little bit of time but it is a really tasty.
I was watching Great Food Live the other day and Jenni Barnet was interviewing Helen Tse. Helen is third generation British Chinese and has just written a book called Sweet Mandarin which details the story of her family and their journey from China to the UK, it sounded really interesting. Helen has also just opened a Pan Asian restaurant with her sisters in Manchester also under the name Sweet Mandarin.
This curry recipe came from Helen’s grandmother Lily and has apparently become very famous at the restaurant. I’m a real curry devotee so when I saw Helen make this on Great Food Live it was definitely a recipe I wanted to try out.
This recipe is another from a cookbook which has sat dormant on my bookcase for a couple of years and has been completely overlooked. Healthy Cooking For Two (or just for you) by Frances Price does have some rather unusual recipes but as I flicked through it this afternoon I came across a recipe which I though had some potential even though it had a bit of a strange title.
The name Bachelor’s-Prize apparently stems from the fact that “apparently” most singletons have peanut butter and natural yogurt in their fridge and that this recipe is so simple that “noncooking bachlors” are assured of success. Those are not my words or sentiments I hasten to add but those of the author.
Since I love just about anything featuring peanut butter I decided to proceed, adding a slight twist of my own.
As anyone who has been a regular to this site will know I’m a big Jamie Oliver fan. Natalie bought me a copy of Jamie’s latest book Cook With Jamie for my birthday back in October but I’m afraid this coincided with the time in my pregnancy when cooking was the last thing on my mind. With a beautiful sunny day outside I’m in the mood for something equally as sunny and I have decided to dust off my Cook With Jamie and finally sample one of the recipes within.
There were so many good looking recipes which I really would have loved to try, like the tomato, basil and ricotta risotto but because of my diabetes I had to select carefully and unfortunately for the moment risotto is out.
We had some chicken in the fridge so a recipe from the section on Roasted Chicken Breasts was the most logical choice. I hope you like this one!
I really LOVE our new George Foreman grill!!
A couple of years ago Stewart bought me a Jr Foreman grill and it we used it relentlessly until the non-stick coating wore off so a couple of weeks ago we ordered a new Foreman Grill. This time instead of a Jr grill we ordered a G5 and it’s wonderful! This one has removable hot plates for easy cleaning and also a variety of assorted plates for grilling, making waffles and also griddling. What more could you possibly want from a grill?
Tonight on I found this delicious sounding marinade recipe on Passionate About Food and thought it would be another great test for the George Foreman.
Today was absolutely freezing. Thankfully we didn’t have any more snow last night, I think the five or six inches which fell the day before was quite sufficient. So to chase away the cold I decided to try an Alan Coxon recipe featured the other night on Great Food Live. I’m not the greatest fan of Alan Coxon, I find watching him makes me nervous as he is so hyper on screen but I do often really like his recipes.
I liked the sound of this rich, spicy and warming stew, it seemed like my kind of no nonsense cookery.
In the original recipe Alan Coxon served the Shakshouka with a chickpea curry, fresh tomatoes, fresh mint (which I dislike) and used homemade harissa but I really wasn’t in the mood for messing around with chickpeas (besides Stewart really loathes them), I would rather used canned tomatoes when they’re not in season and I decided that store bought harissa would suffice.
So here for you folks is my take on Alan Coxon’s recipe for Shakshouka..
As any regular readers know I love curries, especially Thai and Indian curries. Stewart and I also love noodles and so when I found a recipe for Thai noodle curry I knew this was one which had to tested.
This recipe is a slight adaptation of one from Appon’s Thai Food. I have featured recipes from Appon’s site in the past and they’ve always been a real hit.
You’ll find Appon’s original recipe here Thai Noodle Curry (Mi Ga Ti). I didn’t stray too much from the original and I must say that the combination of sweet, sour, spicy and nutty flavours was amazing! Thanks for another hit recipe Appon!!
